From minimally invasive surgery to endoluminal surgery : some recent advances in medical robotics

Philippe Poignet is Professor at the University of Montpellier. aged 43, he holds a doctorate from the University of Nantes / Ecole Centrale de Nantes since 1995, and an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique in 1992. He defended his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in 2004 at the University of Montpellier. He was Research and Development Engineer at SEPRO Robotique from 1996 to 1998, then Senior Lecturer at the University of Orléans and the University of Montpellier from 1998 to 2007. Head of the DEXTER research team (design and control of handling robots) within the LIRMM Robotics Department from 2004 to 2011, he is now Head of the Robotics Department. His research activities focus on robotics and automation for healthcare. He is (or has been) scientific leader within LIRMM of several national (ANR TREMOR 2007-2011, ANR USComp 2009-2012, ANR ROBACUS 2012-2014) and European (FP6AccuRobAs 2006-2009, FP7 ARAKNES 2008-2012) projects. He is also co-organizer of a summer school on surgical robotics, held every two years since 2003. From minimally invasive surgery to endoluminal surgery: some recent advances in medical robotics: Recent developments in surgical techniques, from minimally invasive surgery to much less invasive surgery via the natural route, require the development of new tools adapted to these new procedures. Through a few selected examples, we'll look at the problems involved in designing and controlling these new robots, and show how medical robotics can help meet these challenges, for example, in beating-heart cardiac surgery, or operating through a single trocar, becoming intra-corporeal robotics.